Lead Cover Supervisor

As our lead cover supervisor, you will be responsible for ensuring that students have a high-quality learning experience when their usual teacher is away from school.

You will manage the cover requirements to ensure that students learning is uninterrupted by staff absence, you will also manage classroom behaviour to ensure pupils stay on task and facilitate the activities that have been designed by teaching staff to ensure that students complete the work in an effective learning environment.

If you are passionate about the young people in our community and want to be a part of ensuring their bright futures, then we would really like to hear from you.

This role offers you the chance to step in and lead lessons in the absence of the regular teacher for KS3 and KS4 students, and is a great opportunity for those looking to enter a teaching career.

You'll also have the opportunity to make a broader contribution across the Academy.

This is a permanent, part-time, role, working for 37 hours per week, term time only.

Located in Burton on Trent, at Blessed Robert Sutton, we emphasise the importance of curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking, equipping our students with the skills they need to thrive in an ever-changing world.

We are deeply committed to our community, encouraging strong partnerships between parents, students, and staff to create a supportive network that empowers every child.

Responsibilities

• Manage staff cover for the school, deploying teachers and TAs as necessary to provide stability and continuity for students whose lessons are affected through short-term teaching staff absence.
• Provide a high-quality, customer-focused management and administrative service within the main school office.
• Supervise the students in KS3 and KS4 working on pre-set learning activities in the absence of a teacher.
• Be caring, supportive and committed to achieving excellent results.
• Believe that every young person, whatever their starting point or circumstances, can achieve exceptional things.
• Promote the well-being of our students by providing guidance and support and be able to inspire learning and progress.
• Be resilient and determined, and confident in talking to large groups of young people.

Benefits

• Access to first-class CPD opportunities through partnership with Nottingham Teaching School Alliance.
• Leadership Academy that identifies and develops future leaders.
• Genuine opportunities for career progression across 25 academies in the family and 84 academies across the Diocese.
• Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential, independent, unbiased information and guidance 24/7, and face-to-face counselling sessions if clinically advisable.
• Automatic enrolment into the Teachers' Pension Scheme with 23.68% employer contributions, or into the Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff with contributions above 20%.
• Commitment to nationally agreed terms and conditions for pay for both teachers and support staff.
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